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Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of Nov. 30 - Dec. 6, 2014 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Late Nite Chef Fight Two 5-star chefs go head-to-head in the debut installment of this culinary competition. 7 p.m. FYI Transporter: The Series The action drama is back with new episodes; Chris Vance stars. 10 p.m. TNT SPECIALS 50 Years With Peter, Paul and Mary This new special includes interviews and classic TV and concert footage of the trio that burst out big on the folk-music scene in the early 1960s. 8 p.m. KOCE Punkin Chunkin: Super Chunk! Teams of...

For weeks, Washington has been nudging a reluctant Turkey to assume a more forceful role in President Obama's anti-militant coalition and come to the aid of Kurdish forces battling to push Islamic State fighters out of the besieged Syrian city of Kobani....

The number of sex crimes reported at some California colleges rose in 2013 from the previous year, according to figures released Wednesday by the schools.
The annual disclosures are mandated under the Clery Act, which calls for colleges and...

UC San Diego and UC Riverside are first and second in the annual "socially conscious" ranking of national universities being released Monday by Washington Monthly magazine.
For the fourth year in a row, the San Diego campus topped the...

Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, announced this week that she was giving up her campaign to unseat an incumbent U.S. senator in her father's home state of Wyoming. Her campaign had angered many as she had sauntered from her...

Question: My wife and I dined at a restaurant in Los Angeles where the menu noted that it pays a living wage — about a 15% surcharge. But I was unsure how much to tip. Without the living wage, I would have tipped my usual amount. I favor the custom in...

Paul Meier influenced the field of statistics in two major ways: as a proponent of a method that helped eliminate bias in determining the effectiveness of treatments in clinical trials, and by introducing a system used to estimate survival rates for...

Robert Morgan FinkBiochemist at UCLARobert Morgan Fink, 96, a retired UCLA biochemistry professor whose groundbreaking research with his biochemist wife included developing a new technique in the late 1940s to study the thyroid, died Wednesday of...

Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Mike Patterson is doing much better after a scary morning at training camp. The former USC Trojan suffered a seizure between plays during Wednesday's morning practice but is now alert, stable and joking at a hospital, ...

Vice President Joe "Did You Know I'm from Pennsylvania Too?" Biden" took some time off from another busy Thursday to campaign in Pennsylvania's Bethlehem for John Callahan. At Biden's encouragement, Mayor Callahan is challenging the three-term Republican House

Michael Vick will not be disciplined by the NFL for a shooting that occurred at the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback's birthday party six weeks ago, Commissioner Roger Goodell told Vick while visiting the Eagles' training camp Tuesday. Vick and Goodell spoke ...

The Philadelphia Eagles permitted Stewart Bradley to re-enter a game Sunday less than four minutes after suffering a concussion because their sideline exam did not reveal a concussion and no one from the medical staff saw the hit. As a ...